Comment Einstein a change  le monde
By: Jean-Claude Boudenot ; pre face de Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
Publisher: EDP sciences
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Les Ulis
Language: fre
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9782759802241
Subjects: Mechanics; Nuclear physics; SCIENCE; Energy; Histoire; Physique; Albert Einstein; General; Physics; The orie quantique; Physique nucle aire; Relativite  ge ne rale; Relativite  restreinte; History
Description: This book, both scientific and historical, explains in detailed but highly comprehensible manner - and with the help of illustrations and diagrams - the importance of Einstein's work. In addition, this title shows how, one century after Einstein's "miraculous year", his theoretical works continue to play a role in our daily lives.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Pre face; Sommaire; Introduction; 1. Einstein l'homme du sie  cle; 2.1905 : un tournant de cisif; 3. E = mc2, de ja   un sie  cle; 4. Des atomes a   l'infiniment petit; 5 La relativite  restreinte dans l'air du temps; 6. La relativite  ge ne rale et l'infiniment grand; 7. Un sie  cle de quanta; 8. 2005 vers une nouvelle e  re; Liste des noms cite s; Prix Nobel de physique; Remerciements.